“We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.” JokesClaimsSurrenderRespectability Author:Stephen Colbert
“Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too, that the superstition of political correctness rules the halls of reason. What does all of this mean? It means that telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can’t be far behind. Before you claim to be a champion of free thought, tell me: Why did political correctness originate on America’s campuses? And why do you continue to tolerate it? Why do you, who’re supposed to debate ideas, surrender to their suppression?” ThinkingShouldBelieveMeanDoeIdeasReasonPoliticalBehindsHonestClaimsDebateSurrenderBeing HonestChampionHallsProfessorsScareSuperstitionsToleratePolitical CorrectnessCampusCorrectnessSuppressionFree Thought Author:Charlton Heston
“Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.” TeachingDemandClaimsIslamSurrenderArroganceJustifyImmenseSubmissionMaximsBargainsAbsolutely NothingBorrowingPresumptionInvokeShadyDeference Book:Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume
“A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.” MenMayCountryDiesNationsPartyLibertyClassAll ThingsClaimsSurrenderOur CountryNationalismExclusiveReservationsRendering Book:Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life